On: Google lays off its Python team

[zem]

they are building a new python team from scratch in munich, for whatever reason. yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

[rtpg → zem]

Salary, right? I have to imagine at one point the gap between US devs and European devs is starting to be felt

[happyopossum → rtpg]

The team wasn't US based - GP is in .nl...

[rtpg → happyopossum]

As others have pointed out, OP is in NL, but the rest of the team was in the US.

[joyboyluffy → zem]

I am sure you will find another job that you really like. Well you said you guys were seriously understaffed but that makes it more nonsense to fire them. So were you guys working on a specific project and will those guys from munich continue on it.

[zem → joyboyluffy]

we were working on a ton of stuff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338) - pretty sure the munich team will need to pick up most or all of it.

[luckyrand → zem]

I’m sorry to hear that.

It does not make sense at all. Python cython is a complex ecosystem. It is very difficult for new engineers to pick up speed.

Do you think there is some priority change? Like more focus on internal use case, instead of upstream contribution?

[zem → luckyrand]

i doubt there is much room for a priority change. as i said elsewhere, we were a pretty understaffed team, so we were already very focused on the highest value internal use cases. we did have a couple of people who also worked on the core python interpreter, but that was only a fraction of their duties, and even our open source and upstream contributions were driven by stuff that google also needed done.

[Bcobleigh2 → zem]

The Python Foundation team should spin off and make an AI company. Would probably receive a lot of interest from investors.